“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8, NIV). My writing scrapbook is a simple three-ring binder. When I have the privilege of seeing an article, devotional, or story of mine published somewhere besides my personal blog, I print it out and save…
Category Archives: Training In Truth
Why Does God Allow the Righteous to Suffer?
As Christians. we serve a loving God. Yet a life of service does not always equate a life of ease in return. When we chose to follow Christ, we chose a life of hardships and suffering. Yet we also chose a life of everlasting love. Righteous people face immense hardships. Everyday, people who are walking…
When I’m Not Enough
“I just don’t know if a man will want to marry a woman who’s done the things I’ve done.” It’s heartbreaking, really, the amount of times I’ve heard those words. They come from a variety of sources, from the girl who would have liked to save her first kiss for her husband, to the one…
Change: a Graduate’s Perspective
“Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place…New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort.” – Henry Ward Beecher I stare at the quote tucked into a corner of a page in my journal. In the last year my life has changed tremendously. I went from enjoying the freedom of homeschooling…
Unconditional Love – Everlasting Joy
Over the past month, I had been feeling melancholy and depressed. I had been upset and unsatisfied. I had not been finding joy in my family or God’s plan for it. I am nearly sixteen years old: the eldest of five children. The youngest is two and the latest is a fourteen-year-old girl whom my…
A Son Named Gideon
I think I need a son named Gideon. Really. And, here’s why: I have a lot on my plate these days, a lot on my mind, a lot tugging at my heart, and more times than I have liked to hear it, the Lord has been teaching me to wait on him -to follow his…
Christ Only
“You may have left much to follow Christ…you may have believed on Him, and worked for Him, and loved Him, and yet may not be like Him. Allegiance you know, and confidence you know, but not yet union…There are two wills, two interests, two lives. You have not yet lost your own life that you…
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